Seems like raising a kid requires exposing them to many different experiences growing up, and generally speaking fathers will provide different experiences mothers.
Do I have evidence? No.
Do you have any evidence that any other form of parenting is just as good?
If you disagree with that, and disagree with the initial assumptions, don't you think it would be easiest to post evidence of your own rather than demanding evidence from those you disagree with?
Or do you refuse to post your evidence until other people post theirs, like some kind of standoff?
The side seeking additional discrimination as a policy goal has the burden of evidence supporting the discrimination, not the side supporting the absence of discrimination.
That's not just a good rule of thumb, its a Constitutional rule in the US (though the standard to meet varies depending on the kind of discrimination from a very low standard—the rational basis test—to a very high standard—strict scrutiny.)
Not sure how you got from "let's encourage fathers and mothers to stay together to raise children with better outcomes"
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"seeking discrimination as a policy goal"
> Not sure how you got from "let's encourage fathers and mothers to stay together to raise children with better outcomes" to "seeking discrimination as a policy goal"
Whether it's primarily by gender composition or by biological relationship, what you are proposing is strictly additional discrimination over the alternative you asked to be justified of supporting two-parent families generally and without discrimination among them.
As such, you should bear the burden of supporting that additional discrimination as desirable, rather than your interlocutor bearing the burden of justifying its absence as desirable.
You're commenting on a thread about a claim that what's "best" is for children to have a father and a mother, not "let's encourage fathers and mothers to stay together", which is quite different.
Your reading of this is much different than mine and I don't care to quibble over random internet opinions today. Especially not opinions that aren't even mine.
Do I have evidence? No.
Do you have any evidence that any other form of parenting is just as good?
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